Iman Muhanna Mohammad was killed Dec. 19, 2004, at her home in the 2200 block of North Sibley Street.

Norman Regouffre, 74, lives a few houses down from where Mohammad was killed.

“You don’t realize how long it’s been,” he said. “When I first came around the corner, I saw all kinds of police cars and I wondered, ‘What in the heck is going on now?’”

What was happening was a homicide investigation that would garner national and international headlines.

Mohammad was a Muslim woman who taught school in the Jefferson Parish system. She was six months pregnant when her killer stabbed her 33 times in the stomach. Her unborn child died as well.

“Nothing like that ever happened before,” Regouffre said. “It was shocking more or less, you know.”

The case was suspicious from the start.

Detectives said the phone lines to Mohammad’s Metairie home were cut, and there was no forced entry into her home. Sheriff Harry Lee said in 2004 that there were signs of a fight in the home.

Mohammad’s husband, Fakri Mohammad, spoke to the media in 2004, saying his wife didn’t “have any problems with anyone.”

He was questioned by police and released.

Within months, Crimestoppers offered $50,000 for information. It was the highest award amount the organization had ever offered at the time.

Darlene Cusanza, with Crimestoppers, said the amount showed concern from the immediate family.

Family ties was one reason why the case made national and international headlines.

Mohammad was the sister-in-law of Abdelhaleem Ashqar. Ashqar was a man, who at that time, was one of seven candidates vying to replace Yassay Arafat as president of the Palestinian National Authority. He was also accused of laundering money for the terrorist group Hamas.

Regardless of the reward from Crimestoppers and international attention, Cusanza said few tips were submitted in the investigation.

Former New Orleans Police Department and SWAT team commander Mike Cahn said nothing about the case adds up – especially the brutal way Mohammad was killed.

“The first thing you look at is, is this a hate crime or a possible assassination. I’m sure JPSO (Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office) looked at that and exhausted all options,” he said. “(The brutal way Mohammad was killed) would indicate to me that someone knew the victim, and this was a crime of passion or even infidelity because of the amount of stabbings.”

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said the case remains open but also said that his detectives have exhausted every possible lead, clue and bit of information in the case and yielded nothing.

Legal analyst Robert Jenkins said as time passes, so do the hopes of a successful prosecution.

“It will be tough. Husbands and boyfriends are always the first suspects, and they've gone through that,” Jenkins said. “So it will be difficult unless they come up with forensics.”

Cusanza isn’t losing faith.

“It's not forgotten. The case is there, and if any info comes through, we'll pass it along to be investigated,” she said.

However, residents in the sleepy subdivision aren’t holding out for hope or an arrest in the brutal homicide that seemed to wake everyone up.

“Considering the circumstances, I'd say they may never find out,” Regouffre said.

In 2014, 19 of the 39 homicide investigations in Jefferson Parish have been solved.